By Jeff Seidel, The Sports Xchange BALTIMORE — Kelly Johnson came to the Baltimore Orioles in a trade last month, and he said he really wants to contribute to his new team. The veteran infielder got his wish Sunday night. Johnson capped a two-run rally in the bottom of the ninth with a walk-off, one-out double that gave the Orioles a 3-2 victory over the New York Yankees. Baltimore's magic number dropped to three, as the second-place Toronto Blue Jays lost to the Tampa Bay Rays earlier in the day. The Orioles (89-60) have a chance to clinch the American League East title at home during a three-game series with the Jays that starts Monday. Johnson helped his latest team...

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Thor. Crush Davis. Call him what you will, but the 27-year-old Orioles first baseman is ripping the cover off the ball. If it seems as though Davis hits a bomb every time you flip on an O's game, it's probably because he has. The Baltimore slugger had 27 home runs through 77 games (all stats...

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By Jeff Seidel, The Sports Xchange
BALTIMORE — Kelly Johnson came to the Baltimore Orioles in a trade last month, and he said he really wants to contribute to his new team. The veteran infielder got his wish Sunday night.
Johnson capped a two-run...

Orioles corner infielder Chris Davis, who led the majors with 53 homers last year but has struggled mightily this season, has been suspended 25 games for testing positive for the banned amphetamine Adderall.
Major League Baseball announced the suspension...

Pinch hitter Jimmy Paredes doubled home two runs with two outs in the 11th as host Baltimore prevailed 2-1 in the opener of a doubleheader after losing slugger Chris Davis to a 25-game suspension earlier in the day.
Alejandro De Aza had two hits as the...

By Jeff Seidel, The Sports XchangeBALTIMORE — Chris Davis hit a two-run homer, and right-hander Kevin Gausman went the distance as the Baltimore Orioles defeated the New York Yankees 3-1 in a rain-shortened, five-inning game Sunday night.The game was...

With baseball at the ceremonial midpoint of the season, the biggest overachievers and underachievers are division rivals.The American League West is home to the teams with the major leagues' best records, the Oakland Athletics (59-36) and the Los...

The list of players who were the most valuable on their team through the first half of the 2014 baseball season includes usual suspects such as Andrew McCutchen, Troy Tulowitzki, Paul Goldschmidt, Felix Hernandez and David Price.
As with every season,...

The 22nd annual ESPYS — ESPN's annual sports awards show — started off with cornerback Richard Sherman of Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks winning the award for Best Breakthrough Athlete.
But two of the more memorable moments came when Michael Sam,...

By Jeff Seidel, The Sports XchangeBALTIMORE — Chris Davis, Nelson Cruz and Jonathan Schoop all homered, and Adam Jones drove in two runs as the Baltimore Orioles scored an 11-3 victory over the New York Yankees Monday night.Davis wasn't in the starting...

It's the only game going tonight, so you know there will be plenty of action in Vegas on the MLB All-Star Game. It won't approach Super Bowl or NCAA basketball tournament levels, but there will be a few dollars waged tonight, if only to make what is usually a

We are about halfway through the postseason awards season, and despite this being their most successful season in 17 years, the Orioles have considerably less hardware than they did last season.
The week began with shortstop J.J. Hardy, center fielder...

After the Baltimore Orioles' 2-1 loss to the Kansas City Royals in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series on Wednesday, outfielder Nelson Cruz realized he might have played his final game with the Orioles.
Cruz, who is headed for free...

When the bottom drops out of an otherwise exciting and uplifting season, how exactly are Orioles fans supposed to feel?
Proud?
Disappointed?
Unfulfilled?
All of the above?
Probably the same as the Orioles players who were on top of the baseball world...

Sitting at the media dais under the glare of television lights Thursday, left-hander Wei-Yin Chen made a prediction about his start Friday in Game 2 of the American League Division Series.
“Well, I think tomorrow when I get up to the mound, I will be all...

DETROIT — If the Orioles win Sunday or Monday against the Detroit Tigers to clinch the American League Division Series, suspended slugger Chris Davis almost certainly would not be included on the club's American League Championship Series’ 25-man...

Mike Soukup was driving southbound on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway on Monday afternoon when he saw a stream of brake lights and then a pillar of smoke.
He then saw a pickup truck sideways on its passenger side. One person had been ejected from the...

SARASOTA, Fla. -- Chris Davis returned to the baseball field Friday, but it was a field far from the one the Orioles played on in Toronto.
Davis was over a thousand miles away in steamy Sarasota, playing Instructional League baseball as he tries to...

Friday presented perfect weather for a doubleheader between the Orioles and rival New York Yankees, and a chance for the Orioles to build on their lead in the bid for a division crown.Yet as fans filed into a sun-filled Oriole Park at Camden Yards at...

PITTSBURGH — Baseball's awards races are winding down, and the Baseball Writers Association of America has some difficult choices to make in the four voting categories for each league.
Mike Trout, Clayton Kershaw and Jose Abreu appear to be shoo-ins...

In recent weeks, the Orioles have built the largest division lead in baseball as they chase their first American League East title in 17 years, but the club now faces the possibility of being without All-Star third baseman Manny Machado for an...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — As the Orioles plugged through this offseason without adding a premium bat to the lineup, club officials kept saying that a needed offensive boost could come from two players already on the 40-man roster, two guys who had combined...